{"id":2390,"date":"2025-07-04T08:45:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T15:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/?p=2390"},"modified":"2025-07-09T01:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T08:04:18","slug":"42-santie-barnard-van-den-heever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/af\/2025\/07\/04\/42-santie-barnard-van-den-heever\/","title":{"rendered":"#52 ~ Santie (Barnard) van den Heever"},"content":{"rendered":"
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#52 ~ Santie (Barnard) van den Heever<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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#52 ~ Santie (Barnard) van den Heever<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Dit was vir my heerlik om almal se stories te lees. <\/span><\/p>

So kon ek terugkyk en matriek weer \u2019n bietjie herleef, inspirasie en moed vind om my eie storie te deel. Ek was \u2019n Ma-Plotter, het baie arm grootgeword en ver van die skool af gewoon. Ek kon nie altyd aan sport of aktiwiteite deelneem nie.<\/span><\/p>

Matriek was vir my \u2019n baie moeilike jaar. Ek was gereeld siek en is vier of vyf keer gedurende die jaar gehospitaliseer. Tesame met my siekte is my pa ook kort-kort in die hospitaal opgeneem weens ernstige hartprobleme. Deur groot genade en se\u00ebninge het my pa dit nog \u2019n paar jaar oorleef, en my mediese probleme is uiteindelik op 21-jarige ouderdom opgelos.<\/p>

Na matriek het ek by die destydse Volkskas begin werk vir \u2019n paar maande, waarna ek genooi is vir \u2019n onderhoud by die Nasionale Intelligensiediens. Ek het toe \u2019n pos daar aanvaar. Hier het ek my man, Johan, ontmoet\u2014my wonderlike eggenoot. Ons is getroud en was aanvanklik in Pretoria gestasioneer. Daarna is ons na Parys, Frankryk verplaas, waar Johan verbonde was aan die ambassade (ek het selfs \u2019n paar klasmaats daar raakgeloop).<\/p>

Later is ons terug Suid-Afrika toe, en was vir vyf jaar in Kaapstad gestasioneer.<\/p>

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In 2000 is ons die geleentheid gegun om \u2019n maatskappy oor te neem wat landmyne en onge\u00ebxplodeerde ammunisie, oftewel \u201cUXO\u2019s,\u201d verwyder. Ons is steeds betrokke by werk in onder andere Angola, DRK, Kongo en Soedan. Johan doen al die harde werk in die veld, terwyl ek die finansi\u00eble en administratiewe sake hanteer.<\/p>

Net om dit te beaam: Afrika is nie vir sissies nie.<\/p>

My man was op pad van Ka\u00efro na Soedan toe sy visum daar \u2019n probleem veroorsaak het (alles in Arabies). Hy is summier gearresteer en sonder kontak met enigiemand teruggestuur Ka\u00efro toe. Hy was vir drie dae vermis. In Ka\u00efro is hy aangehou en ondervra deur die Egiptiese intelligensiediens weens sy agtergrond. Op die derde oggend is hy toegelaat om my te skakel en te laat weet dat hy die volgende oggend terug Suid-Afrika toe sou vlieg.<\/p>

Terwyl ons maatskappy in die DRK werksaam was, is twee van ons werknemers wat in \u2019n konvooi gereis het, deur M23-rebelle aangeval. Een kon ontsnap; die ander is gevange geneem. Die Burger<\/em> in Kaapstad het die storie gepubliseer en Johan is verkeerdelik as die gevangene ge\u00efdentifiseer. Ons hele familie en vriendekring was in rep en roer. Met baie gebede en genade is ons werknemer binne twee dae, n\u00e1 intense onderhandelinge, vrygelaat.<\/p>

Ons is gese\u00ebnd met \u2019n dogter en seun, en drie pragtige kleinseuns. My dogter is \u2019n onderwyseres in Nieu-Seeland, en my seun werk saam met ons in die maatskappy.<\/p>

Ek hoop, indien ons veldwerk dit toelaat, om die re\u00fcnie te kan bywoon.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dit is vir my heerlik om almal se stories te lees \u2013 dit laat my terugkyk en Matriek weer \u2019n bietjie herleef, inspirasie vind en moed kry om my eie storie te deel. Ek was \u2019n Ma-Plotter, het baie arm grootgeword en ver van die skool af gewoon, wat beteken het ek kon nie altyd aan sport en ander aktiwiteite deelneem nie.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2390"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2551,"href":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions\/2551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}